Improvement in machines for pressing clothes



Patented Mny 20,1187LL` u n /f n n l Mah vH.` E; SMITH. Machines fur Pressing Clothes.

AM. momnudemrmcoow.Moseamvspnacsss) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'HAMILTON E. SMITH, or FITCEBUEG, MAssAcHUsETTs.

IM PROVE M E NT IN MACH! N ES FOR PlRESSlNQ CLQTFHWESi Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,201, dated May 20, 1873 application iiled January 8, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH.

of Fitchburg, in the county of Worcester and in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Pressing and Smoothing Clothes and other Articles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

' which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had ,to the accompanying drawing forming part of this speclfication, in which drawing- `round a tension-roller and a large central roller, which is partially surrounded by a series of small pressing-rollers, round which the second apron is stretched, and which are adjustable toward and from the central roller, and geared together with the same in such a manner that, if the machine is set in motion in the proper direction and the articles to be pressed are placed upon the upper branch of the receiving-apron, which extends -around the central roller,) said articles are carried in between the receiving-apron and the presslngapron, which extends round the pressing-roller, and, as they are carried through between the central roller and the pressing-roller, they are pressed and smoothed, while the aprons keep them in the proper position. The pressingapron also serves to y discharge he articles after the same have been pressed.

In the drawing, the letters A A designate two standards or frame-pieces, which form the bearings for a shaft, B, on which is mounted j the central roller C, and also for the gudgeons of a series of pressing-rollers, D. The standards A A are provided with arms a a, furnished with slots b b to receive the journa1- boxes c c of a roller, E, which I term the ten'- sion-roller of the -receiving-apron. Said journal-boxes c c are exposed to the action of screws d d, which serve to draw the same outward. The receivingapron F is stretched the same supercial velocity.` With the pressing-rollers is combined a tension-roller, G, which has its bearings in slides g, that are adjustable by set-screws h, said slides being dovetailed into the standards AA. His the pressing-apron, which extends round the pressing-rollers and round the tension-roller Gr, as shown in Fig. 2.

. By adjusting the pressing-rollers, the pressing-apron can be brought to bear with more .or less power upon the receiving-apron, and

if the central roller is .turned in the direction of the arrow marked on it in Fig. 2, and the articles to be pressed are spread on the upper branch of the receiving-apron, said articles are carried in between the two aprons, and, after having passed through between the pressing-rollers and the central roller, they are discharged over the tension-roller G upon a table, I, which is secured between the standards A A.

The central roller receives its motion from a shaft, J, with which it is geared together by cog-wheels i j, and the shaft J is driven by belt and pulley, or in any other desirable manner.

The aprons F and H are `by preference made of India rubber, cloth, or othersoft and elastic material, and as these aprons carry the articles to be pressed through between `the pressingrollers and the central roller, said articles are securely retained in the required position, and they are prevented from getting wrinkled or from being injured by direct contact with the metallic rollers.

The articles to be pressed can be readily and conveniently adjusted on the receivingapron lwhile the same is in motion, and a machine for pressing and smoothingclothes is obtained which is convenient in its operation, simple and durable -in its construction, not liable to get out of order, and capable of protogether Wlth the same, substantially in theK manner and for the purposevhereinl shown and v described.

2. The discharge-roller G, combined with the pressing-apron H, receiving-apron F, and tableI, substantially in the Ymanner and'for the purpose set forth.

HAMILTON E. SMITH.

Witnesses:

C. H. B. SNOW, J. W. KIMBALL. 

